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THE LIGHT OF THE GODS 





WITH GOLD AND IVORY GLEAMING BRIGHT.' 



Frontispiece . 



THE LIGHT OF THE GODS 



GRACE GRANGER 




New York 

The Cosmopolitan Press 

1911 



Copyright 1911 by 
Grace Granger 



C1.A303420 





GAZE AV\ E-STRUCK ON THY WONDROUS FACE. 



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THE PARTHENON 

THE sun sinks slowly in 
the west, 
The purple shadows 
creep apace, 
And we too, ere we go to rest. 
Gaze awe-struck on thy won- 
drous face. 

We pause, for this is holy 
ground. 
The spot where gods once 
dwelt with men. 
Thou wert the home of her who 
crown' d 
This whole hill like a diadem. 
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With gold and ivory gleaming 
bright, 
She dwelt within thy inmost 
shrine. 
She had no need of day nor 
night, 
For from her brow came light 
divine. 



That light still gilds these shat- 
tered walls 
As passing centuries onward 
roll, 
Adown the ages still she calls 
And answers to our inmost 
soul. 

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Copyrighted In i ndin'-ooa Sr UndrnvooJ^ N. } . 

"THAT LIGHT STILL CJILDS THESE SHATTERED WALLS. 



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Cofyrighted hy Underwood s I'd, ., .V. ) . 

"A HIGHER LIGHT HAS COME TO MAN. 



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The Parthenon 



A Higher Light has come to man, 
A Light of which she showed 
the dawn. 
Rejoicing in that Light we can 
Still praise and bless her glor- 
ious morn. 



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SUNIUM 

A ROCKY height, a sky of 
blue, 
A deep, deep sea of azure 
hue; 
A stilhiess that our senses steep, 
And Sunium lies at noon asleep. 



And we from distant lands astray 
In yonder temple watch and 

pray, 
As in the past men did before. 
When this lone hill strange 

altars bore. 

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Photograph 



"A ROCKY HEICHT, A SKY OF BLUE. 



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Photograph takeri hy Dr. A. S. Cooler. 

■'SUXIUM LIES AT NOON ASLEEP. 



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Sunium 



We see them climb the winding 

steep, 
We hear their voices low and 

deep, 
The incense burns, the priests 

arise 
And offer up the sacrifice. 



Ah! not in vain the prayers they 

said, 
Though Sunium' s fires be cold 

and dead. 
Ah! not in vain the hymns they 

sang. 
That soft through Sunium' s 

temple rang. 
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So as the hours go Hngering by. 
And white sails hang twixt sea 

and sky, 
From vanished past, from ashes 

grey 
Comes clearer light and hope 

to-day. 



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FROM VANISHED PAST, FROM ASHES GREY." 



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Mars Hill 



MARS HILL 

OH ! Hill of Mars, divinely 
fair, 
Thy noble height shines 
soft to-day ; 
The gentle winds of Attic air 
About thy lofty summits play. 



This hill so bare once teemed 
with life. 
Thy councils e'en the gods 
did grace; 
And from the world of toil and 
strife 
Men came to gaze upon thy 
face. 

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And gazing felt their souls re- 
newed 
As thy stern mandates evil 
chid. 
And 'neath thy brow crushed 
and subdued 
The awful shades of conscience 
hid. 



Here once with murderous brow 
overcast, 
And hands with mothers' blood 
imbrued. 
Came one who here found peace 
at last 
And the wild powers of sin 
subdued. 

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Mars Hill 



Here first from gods to man was 
given 
The greatest gift gods can be- 
stow — 
The grace that Ufts the soul to 
heaven 
While tears of penitence over- 
flow. 



And later on came one who here 
More clearly yet that grace 
had showed; 
Since blind with light, and dumb 
with fear, 
He met his Master in the 
road. 

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Ah! greater than the poet's tale 
His halting speech our memo- 
ries fill — 
From mystic shrine to rend the 
veil 
Stood the Great Saint upon 
Mars Hill. 



Oh blessed hill his feet hath trod 
The sacred message to pro- 
claim, 
He who declared the '' Unknown 
God'' 
Adds lustre to thy deathless 
fame. 

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"FROM MYSTIC SHRINE TO REND THE VEIL. 



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The Fountain of Peirene 

THE FOUNTAIN OF 
PEIRENE 

THE flying horse sank 
slowly down 
To where the waters 
from the side 
Of the grim mountain's rocky 
crown 
To each and all their need 
supplied. 

Bursting and rushing from the 
ground 
Flowed the cool stream his 
thirst to stay. 
He paused, and gazing shy around 
Drank, rose, and soared from 
sight away. 

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Soon in the hot and dusty town 

That water to a fountain fared, 

And thirsting strangers stooping 

down 

By morn, by noon, its solace 

shared. 



So we too, passing by in haste 
And wand' ring down the 
ruined way; 
The old, old fountain, sore 
defaced, 
Yet showed that once its cool- 
ing spray 
To each and all had solace given, 

As in the olden time betide 
The winged horse came down 
from Heaven. 
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HAT WATER TO A FOUNTAIN FARED. 



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[G 18 1911 



One copy del. to Cat. Div. 



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